Top 100 Hung Quotes
#1. Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
Virginia Woolf
#2. But a sad fatality hung over this young girl. She had been given to seven husbands, all of whom had perished in the bride-chamber.
Soren Kierkegaard
#3. I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
William Butler Yeats
#4. The woods hung dark on the hills; above, the sky violet, specked with minute feathery clouds, white as snowflakes.
Arthur Machen
#5. A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
John Harvey Kellogg
#6. Ranger hung my bag on my shoulder and looked at me. "Are you okay with all this?" "Actually, I feel like throwing up a lot." "It's the doughnuts." "It's my life.
Janet Evanovich
#7. My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.
Gary Hirshberg
#8. The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James Joyce
#10. You know I think you hung the moon, right?" "Right. Just like I know you held the ladder and looked up my skirt.
Gena Showalter
#11. The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.
James Hervey
#12. My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.
Robert Metcalfe
#13. He chuckled. She turned to see what was funny and nearly had a heart attack.
He was holding one hot-pink-and-white mug while reading it, the other sitting on the counter: 'Men should be like my curtains, easy to pull and well hung.
Terry Spear
#14. Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
P.T. Barnum
#15. Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.
May Swenson
#16. You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
Jay Mohr
#17. Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
Jack Kemp
#18. I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.
Todd English
#19. The results of family disintegration are seen all around us. Runaways. Child abuse. Abortions. It is dirty laundry - once hung in the nation's backyard, but now hung shamelessly in front yards - flaunted in headlines and glamorized on television and in films.
Billy Graham
#20. God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.
Billy Graham
#21. Out of all of the trillions of years of the Earth's history, you might be alive for one 70 or 80 year period. That ain't so long. You should be out ready to burn this motherfucker to the groun' while you can. But they somehow get you all scared and hung up on these stupid ideas.
L.T. Vargus
#22. I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.
Kenny Chesney
#23. The rain hung from his earlobes like delicate jewelry.
Dia Reeves
#24. The shirt hung to my knees.
He smirked. "You are tiny."
I stuck out my tongue at him. "You're just huge."
He winked.
Cambria Hebert
#25. I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.
Jordan Peele
#26. So why are you called Horse?" "Cause I'm hung like one," he replied, smirking.
Joanna Wylde
#27. It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said.
"Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family."
"But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.
Martin Hegwood
#28. I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place!
George Duke
#29. There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
Agatha Christie
#30. When I did 'Young Guns II,' I hung out with Emilio and Kiefer, and I once took a trip with Rob Lowe - we jumped trains.
Christian Slater
#31. Minute diamonds of moisture from the mist hung, too, upon Tess's eyelashes, and drops upon her hair, like seed pearls. When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty;
Thomas Hardy
#32. Why should a family with eight rambunctious children bother owning anything that could be damaged? They sat on the arms of their mother's overstuffed chair while she read to them, and they hung over the back of it, and they pinched and plucked at its plushy hide.
Marilynne Robinson
#33. If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
Edgar Allan Poe
#35. He strolled out onto the wide, semidark veranda, where couples were scattered at tables, filling the lantern-hung night with vague words and hazy laughter.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#36. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#37. He's been hung up on a one-night-stand he had five years ago with a girl that smelled like Cocoa Puffs.
Tara Sivec
#38. But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.
Blake Nelson
#39. I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it ...
Suzanne Collins
#40. All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
Sylvia Plath
#41. I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.
El DeBarge
#42. What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence?
Susan Scott
#43. Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus.
Larry McMurtry
#44. Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.
Glenn Beck
#46. As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.
Boris Pasternak
#47. The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool.
Scott Turow
#48. A banner hung over the break-room door, facing out so any who came in would see the sentiment:
NO MATTER YOUR RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WE PROTECT AND SERVE, BECAUSE YOU COULD GET DEAD.
J.D. Robb
#49. There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
#50. I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
Lorde
#51. His sword, Sting, Bilbo hung over his fireplace, and his coat of marvellous mail, the gift of the Dwarves from the Dragon-hoard, he lent to a museum, to the Michel Delving Mathom-house in fact.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. Ripe strawberries hung from the little plants, row after row. They gleamed like baubles, bright and red among the leaves, weighing down their stalks.
Odo Hirsch
#53. In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.
Ellen Galinsky
#54. I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.
Jeff Ross
#55. Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, - -
William Shakespeare
#56. Her eyes, they shone like diamonds I thought her the queen of the land And her hair, it hung over her shoulder Tied up with a black velvet band.
James Patterson
#57. We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
Lee Konitz
#58. The last thin paring of the old moon hung over the distant mountains to the west. Venus had moved away. With dark a gauzy swarm of stars. He could not guess what they were for so many.
Cormac McCarthy
#59. Such
times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded
in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.
Roger Zelazny
#60. Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher
will not indicate a favoring wind,
or avert the thunderbolt.
Charles Olson
#61. Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!
Carolyn Keene
#62. The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#63. Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art and overlooking most of Seattle with a helipad stuck on its roof.
E.L. James
#64. To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
Rob Bell
#65. I've never hung around with any models. I've always hung around with my friends from school and kept myself to myself.
Georgia Salpa
#66. I don't want anyone watching me change. I will do all my changing in private. In public I am, always, the finished thing. The right thing, for the right place. A chrysalis is hung in the dark.
Caitlin Moran
#67. The tree seemed very sad to be involved in such a thing and it hung its dark head over them.
Karen Foxlee
#68. Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.
Daniel Webster
#69. But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.
Tennessee Williams
#70. Vimes hung up the tube. Trolls with a message. It was unlikely to be an invitation to a literary lunch.
Terry Pratchett
#71. I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.
Hack Wilson
#72. I no longer went to church as a regular habit, but go I sometimes did, for one Sunday morning I saw these words painted on a board in the porch: 'The congregation are requested to kneel during prayers; the kneelers are afterwards to be hung upon pegs provided for the purpose.
W.B.Yeats
#73. I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.
Devon Sawa
#74. You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.
Sean Covey
#75. My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.'
Sebastian Faulks
#76. There were photos of steel grappling hooks in the meat shed where the Watt Lake Killer had hung, gutted, flayed, and bled out his victims like slaughtered deer. Photos
Loreth Anne White
#77. The king will catch us if the sheriff should fail to and then the Saxon race can be symbolically and romantically hung by the neck till dead.
Robin McKinley
#78. Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.
Leslie Land
#79. You're the measure of my true decline. Your home isn't in the underworld, you live in the back room of the liquor store. My eternally hung-over angel, my Satan crawling like an amber worm from a bottle of Zoladkowa Gorzka.
Jerzy Pilch
#80. FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)
James Patterson
#81. Around then Jade happened by again. "Thought that was you," Doc said, "though we ain't exactly been wallerin in eye contact. Got your note at the office, but why'd you go runnin away like that? we could've hung out, you know, smoke some shit.
Thomas Pynchon
#82. I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.
Peter Hedges
#83. Above us hung a tapestry of silver and gold and palest green that in my world had faded into white: a great oak so entwined with ivy it had died, its bare branches pushing through the leaves like bone. I stared at the roses, wanting to hold my hands to such red, but like the light, they burned cold.
Patricia A. McKillip
#84. Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
R.C. Sproul
#85. It almost rained Saturday.The clouds hung low over the farm.The air felt thick.It smelled like rain.
In town,the sidewalks got damp, that was all.
Karen Hesse
#86. Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among,
With their long sentences hung. Forest!
Rainer Maria Rilke
#87. Confessing I didn't, I scribbled the directions on the notepad I always kept by the phone. I hung up and my feet were already on the floor as adrenaline hit my nerves like espresso. The house was quiet. I grabbed my black medical bag, scuffed and worn from years of use. The
Patricia Cornwell
#88. Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy.
Roald Dahl
#89. Ahren looked at Camille like she hung the sun in the sky every morning. It was beautiful, the way he watched her, enchanted by every breath that came out of her mouth.
Kiera Cass
#90. the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of boats, nets hung neatly between the outside and the in, keeping floundering secrets firmly hidden...
Jon McGregor
#91. I wanted to preserve this moment, this slice of time when the night was cool and bright with reflected moonlight and the possibility of a kiss hung between us, full of unspent promise. Every event in my life after this would be different because I would have been kissed.
Alex Flinn
#92. It hung above the livid, bruised land like an admonition
Iain Banks
#93. Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
David Helvarg
#94. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.
Gail Carson Levine
#95. Finally it was probably less the poverty that bred crime than the sour stench of racism that hung over anyplace where people are separated out by kind.
Robert B. Parker
#96. It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle
#97. The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.
Will Self
#98. I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.
Alan Arkin
#99. God sleepeth not, and He will visit His judgement upon you. Better were it for you to have a millstone hung about your neck and sink into the sea than to be hated and despised of all men.
Helen Keller
#100. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
George R R Martin